Palestine
Tel Aviv censors Arab presence —and dissent
A Tel Aviv councilor’s speech, in which he proposed adding Arabic to the city’s logo, disappeared from a video recording posted on city hall’s official YouTube channel.
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Palestine
Rafah attack: Muslim Brotherhood blames Mossad; IDF blames ‘global jihad’
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood blamed the deadly attack at the Rafah crossing on Israel’s Mossad, while the IDF said it was carried out by “global jihadists.”
Palestine
Hamas Holocaust faux pas makes media, not IDF invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque
Holocaust-denying comments by a Hamas official win international coverage, while an Israeli military invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque received practically no mainstream reportage.
Palestine
Syria: Palestinians caught between both sides
Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp in Damascus have joined the Syrian uprising. But Palestinian militants backed by the regime are targeted by the rebels for assassination.
Palestine
Israel issues demolition orders for eight Palestinian villages
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on July 22 ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the hills south of Hebron because the Israeli military needs the land for training exercises. A total of 1,500 residents will be evicted from… Read moreIsrael issues demolition orders for eight Palestinian villages
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Usual suspects blame usual suspects in Bulgaria terror attack
Five Israeli tourists are blown up at a Bulgarian resort. Netanyahu wastes not a minute in blaming Hezbollah. Conspiranoid websites waste not a minute in blaming an Israeli “false flag” attack. Birds of a feather, it seems.
Palestine
Israel commission recommends “legalizing” West Bank settlements
A panel commissioned by the Israeli government recommended that the state “legalize” dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlements, and nullify Supreme Court decisions that have barred settlement expansion in certain areas.
Palestine
UK jurists report: Israeli child detention practices illegal
A delegation of senior British jurists released a report finding Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children in custody violates international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Palestine
Occupy Tel Aviv —again
Police detained 89 demonstrators after more than 6,500 people flooded Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest the arrest of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s mass movement against the high cost of housing in Israel.
Palestine
Israel, Iran in not-so-secret nuclear arms race
As Iran announces plans to build a nuclear submarine, Israel receives its fourth nuclear-capable submarine from Germany. Der Spiegel reports that the subs have already been armed with nuclear-tipped Cruise missiles.
Palestine
Israel urged to release Palestinian detainees
Amnesty International urged Israel to release all “administrative detainees” or immediately try them under international fair trial standards. The report protests that Israel continues to use “emergency measures” dating to the British Mandate period.
Palestine
Denial, self-hatred evidenced in Israel’s xenophobic irruption
Amid a wave of anti-immigrant protests and harsh new laws, Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishaii complains that most of the “Muslims that arrive here do not even believe that this country belongs to us, to the white man.”